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Head of English

Beacon Academy, Crowborough, East Sussex, TN6 2AS

This job expired on 20 March 2023

• Job start date

  1 September 2023

• Closing date

  20 March 2023 at 9am

• Date listed

  3 March 2023

Job details

• Job role:
  • Head of year, department, curriculum or phase
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Subject: English
• Working pattern:
  • Full time - 32.5 hours
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: Dependent upon experience
• Additional allowances:

  TLR1

What skills and experience we're looking for

Due to the retirement of our long-standing, highly respected Head of Department, we are seeking applications from dedicated and hardworking professionals with a desire to work in an extremely successful, happy, well-resourced, non-selective 11-18 Academy. The role will be to lead English from Key Stage 3 through to Key Stage 5. Applicants must be experienced, enthusiastic and self-motivated, with strong organisational skills, and able to lead and develop a large and talented team.

What the school offers its staff

Beacon Academy, Crowborough forms part of MARK Education Trust, alongside Uplands Academy in Wadhurst. The acronym MARK stands for Motivated, Ambitious, Resourceful, and Knowledgeable; qualities embraced by all our students and staff.  

We work meticulously to secure a culture of unapologetically high expectations that are underpinned by our collective, uncompromising belief and ambition for our students, and for the experienced, loyal, highly skilled, and highly effective team of staff that teach them, allowing teachers to teach and students to learn in a school where leadership, management, behaviour, and welfare are all judged as outstanding. MARK Education Trust is committed to the development of both its staff and students. 

Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to Enhanced DBS clearance and suitable references.

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About Beacon Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1513 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Beacon Academy website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: hr@beacon-academy.org
• Phone number: 01892 603000
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/beacon-academy (opens in new tab)

We are a split site, semi-rural, mixed 11-18 non-selective converter academy with approximately 1520 students, including over 220 students in our Sixth Form. We are situated centrally in Crowborough on the outskirts of the Ashdown Forest, an area of outstanding natural beauty. We are close to Tunbridge Wells and the South Coast. The vast majority of our staff travel to Beacon from a variety of destinations within the South East, including Brighton, Eastbourne, Lewes and Tunbridge Wells.

Arranging a visit to Beacon Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@beacon-academy.org.

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